Construction costs at the new University of Chicago Medicine cancer hospital have grown 29 percent, from $633 million to $815 million due to design changes and inflation, the Chicago Tribune reported Feb. 15.
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After months of community input, University of Chicago Medicine submitted an application to state regulators, updating its original plans to build an $815 million standalone cancer hospital, Chicago Sun-Times reported Feb. 15.
Durango, Colo.-based Axis Health System purchased an old payment processing company building for $18 million, intending to turn it into a new location for patient care beginning in 2024, The Durango Herald reported Feb. 14.
Charleston-based Medical University of South Carolina is planning to build a new emergency and primary care facility on Seabrook Island, S.C.
Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health has filed paperwork to build a 54-bed inpatient behavioral hospital for pediatric patients in Granville County, the Triangle Business Journal reported Feb. 14.
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A former Kindred Healthcare building in Phoenix sold for $14 million, the Phoenix Business Journal reported Feb. 14.
Several hospital construction projects recently have been completed, announced or advanced. Becker's Hospital Review has reported on these seven since Feb. 1:
Baptist Health has teamed with Parata Systems, an automated pharmacy technology company, to build a central fill mail-order specialty pharmacy that will serve all of Baptist's nine hospitals.
Dunkirk, N.Y.-based Brooks-TLC Hospital is calling for a new $71 million hospital in Fredonia as part of a plan to save the hospital, The Buffalo News reported Feb. 12.
Scaffolding used for construction collapsed due to high winds at Daytona Beach, Fla.-based Halifax Hospital, WFTV9 reported Feb. 12.